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The benevolent banner. [volume] (North Topeka, Kan.) 1887-18??, 1887-06-18
Societies.

oVGlCsAOS'
IN meeting Of the F. G. |.
',a,st societies Of Kansas and
'r =, LODGE NO. I,
.,'i 4, night Of each week.
i''''' N. P. Hubbard, Pres.
DuId Garrett Secy.
'rpEycE LODGE, NO. ?,
n nd third Monday nights Of
'''''' "A. +. Brooks, Pres.
IT. Bates, secy'
1prrA LODGE NO. 5, on the
u IA ,nd third Tuesday nights.
A. D. DeFrantz, Pres.
|DB Garrett, Secy.
ngTH TOPEKA LODGE, NO. s,
~ pn the first and third Satur-
dEof the month.
H. Galloway, Pres,
n. BirdWhistle. Secy.
trODEMUS LODGE, NO. Z, meet
i'll and third Mondays Of each
mouth.
A. N. Harper, Pres.
". Miles, Secy.
.ECUNSEH LODGE, NO. Ii, meet
Int and third Monday Of the
Month.
John Evans, Pres.
= Evans, Secretary.
Meeting Of The Branch Lodges Of
'AOljH
lEATENKaRTH BRANCH MOI,
nssi On Wednesday evening Of
eath week.
Mrs. ]. Rufins, Pres.
Dis KaY Mathews, Secy.
|LAVRESCEsRANCH No. 2, meet
% tAe first md third Wednesday
fFtaingofthe month.
Au. ., Wilkerson, Pres.
" Florence King, secy. |
FESF0RTH LADY LODGE, |
meet first and third Wednes- |
evening in each month.
4. l ! Edith Debougb, Pres.
sliEA BRANCH, No. 5, meet
= Y nd third Thursday evening Of
Y month. y
|. MI, Mrs 9. v, Atkinson, Pres.
a y Asli ! y. Townsend, seey.
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80 NM Y. s., meets on Thuradav
ssslng Of each week. Il t 1Aa;1rS J q,
INN sali "a. Ave. = between A and r
= ~ 4 ! worth J ] Topeka. All breth.
trlth Us. - invited 70
|ln.c,..I1l,. 4, Morrison, Nc.
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I've Ssenlng Of each month.
III MIS- nrs. Mason, Matron.
IN acClrre, Secy,
no 70. ;, meet lst and 81
~ B.n.6 alas Bigsby, W.
~. aoRTH TOPEKA.
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srs., wn. Harris, W. NJ.
evenings. - ana 70
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y. meet q and Sd Monday
arst, 81. ]. Jones, W.M,
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The benevolent banner. [volume] (North Topeka, Kan.) 1887-18??, 1887-06-18

TN ~ has quite a large es-
aud has largest colored, in
lsAt ana nas I good trade. He
Ezcsou energetic, and Will
"a MS IKE such q man in To-
appo,, be would receive !
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ort s Olsnt Societies send IN
81 80 - We will send them !
srs,r' ne 1 We want the adj
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4 ss. sse, = sena to Lock
q Topeka, Kansas
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gTTEVOLENT BANNER

\ DDl'D'OHH
7 ], rHE co1oRED PEOPLE OF
nd WESTERN MISSOURI
,rgB, GARRETT s co.
.S'ars and ProprietorS'
One Dollar per year ID al
dollar and twenty-five cents
30 days.
Benevolent Banner
Lock Box liz,
North Topeka, Kansas.
M printers. Office 116 E. 7th St.
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The benevolent banner. [volume] (North Topeka, Kan.) 1887-18??, 1887-06-18

u meeting Of the F. G. |.
IL, societies of Kansas and
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4. nostofice as I'd class matter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE greatest exc1temenU prevails in
Havana, occasioned by the recent acts of
Capt Gen. Marin in taking possession of
the customhouse and placing the officials
under arrest. The city is in charge of reg
ular troops and the situation becomes
daily more desperate, recalling events
attending the massacre of medical students
in 1871.
SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, thinks
Secretary Lamar will be the Democratic
candidate for Vice-President.
The record of yellow fever cases at Key
West, up to the 2Sth, according to the
reports of the board Of health. was as
follows: New cases l, deaths so, dis
charged cured III, still sick SO.
TIE REV. MosEsi RoGERs, a direct de-
scendant of John Rogers, who was burned
at the stake in England on account of his
religious convictions in the sixteenth CEN
tury, and who was probably the oldest
member of the Methodist ministry in
America, died at Fresh Pond, l.. l., on the
9th. The deceased was in his ninty fourth
year, and had been preaching about
seventy years.
A SLIGHT shock Of earthquake was felt
at Augusta, Ca, on the 2sth.
In a drunken row at Washington, on the
night OF the 2sth, Frank Heiseman shot
and killed John Waines. An angry crowd
gathered, but HeisemaR kept them at bay
with his smoking revolver, and finally es-
capped.
THE President has appointed Robert A.
Crowley, of Mississippi, to be Marshal of
the United States Consular - Court at
NingpO, China.
THE disorder at Decatur, Ga, on the
9th, was not in any sense a conflict be-
tween the races. A drunken negro dis
turbed a religions meeting and several
negro tOughs resisted arrest. In the melee
fatal shots were fired and the whites be-
came very much excited, but so far as yet
appears without cause.
WITHIN a short time the United States
has adopted a system for the transmission
of documents to our consuls which has re-
suited in the saving of a great many hun
dreds of dollars in the course of the year.
ALTHOUGH the flow of trade dollars
toward the Treasury has practically
ceased, it is believed that there are still
great many Of these coins. Up to the
present time there have been about seven
and a half million trades" exchanged for
standard dollars.
SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI is in frenzy
OF excitement over the railroad land ques-
most remarkable features.
SIXTY persons were poisoned from eat
ing ice cream at Beaumont, Texas, on the
2sth. It is thought two Of the victims
viii die.
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COLOROW AGAIN.
a Fight Reported to Have Taken PIac
With COlorow's Band.

a Fight Reported to Have Taken Place
With COlOrow's Band.
GLENwOoD SPRINGS, Col, Aug. 27-Bern-
stein, who lives about four miles below
Meeker, is just in. A battle has taken
place between Kendall's men and band of
Indians. Deputy Sheriff Jack Ward was
killed and several wounded Several In
dians are reported killed, as several were
seen to fall and to be carried off the field.
So far as known the fight was stopped by
darkness, and it is thought 1t IS almost GER
tain to be resumed by daylight.
A GRAVE ASPECT.
MEEKER, Col, Aug. 27.-The Indian war
has assumed a grave aspect, and for all
that is known big battle may have taken
place between COlOrOW and Major Leshe's
command of 100 poorly equipped man. 1t is
hoped that if such is the case the 100 men
have not been served in a similar manner to
Shornburgh, although the conditions are the
same. When the news Of the encounter IL
Coyote basin yesterday between Pritchard's
scouts and the Indians was received, Gen
eral Rearden acted promptly. The Aspen
volunteers-seventy-fiv men-Were sworn
into service and started to the front. Captain
Dana and the Colorado Springs company o.
fifteen men also went. Dana carries .
warrant for ColorOw. The men have i'm
perative orders to bring Colorow dead or
alive. When the men reach there, there
will be about 200 men in the field against
the Utes. They are thought to number
about 200. Meelzer is almost stripped OF
men, and the population is two-thirds
women and children. Families are coming
in in large numbers and no one leaves
town except when compelled to do so.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
IN .THE ERloIo ZONE
Instructive Details of a Visit I'm a Whaler Z
Spitzbergen.


Spitzbergen.
At meeting of the Berlin Geologi-
cal Society DIR. Kuckenthal gave some
interesting details of a visit on a
whaler, the Hvidfsken, to Spitzbergen.
The surface of the sea was often thick
ly covered with dirty green one-celled
alg9. in which lived a small rod crab,
hunted by the fish as they wander from
north to south. Arriving on the 18th
of June at Spitzbergen, the fantastic
forms of the snOw-cOvered mountains
in the magically red light of the mid
night sun formed an enchanting con-
trast to the pure green sky, a tint
caused by the reflection of the ice.
Excursions to the interior proved that
it consisted of one il0mense icy desert,
but that it had long ages ago been 4
scene of great fertility. for there were
found numerous petrifactiOns, extern
sive beds of coal, etc. Where on the
coast or among the hills, which are
about five hundred to one thousand five
hundred feet high, there are now only
some MOSES, grasses or other poor lit
tie plants during the short summer,
the palm once grew in abundance.
The bare coast mountains are geOlOgi-
cally remarkable. The steep preci-
pices, like gigantic terraces, which
frame in Advent Bay, continue in the
same form to about one thousand feet
below the surface of the water. The
east part of the island is entirely
blocked up by ice and is inaccessible,
but the extreme sideward currents of
the Gulf Stream in the west some times
allow of a free approach, while in the
north the sea is frequently free of
ice in consequence of the north wind.
Last century the ships of all ma
tiOns repaired to Spitzbergen to fish;
now that business is reduced to about
thirty Norwegian boats. Among these
the sO-called ''rat-cages" play the part
of pariahs, for they take every thing
with them that they find-birds' eggs,
down, seals, reindeers, bears, and,
above all, wreckage. The aristocracy
is represented by the white whalers,
with their very costly apparatus. DR..
Kuckenthal visited Sassen Bay and
found that the maps of it and the
neighborhoOd are very incorrect, and
that the NOrford is as broad again as
the dimensions given on the maps.
The Templeberg, on the Sassen Bay.
&tffords a magnificent spectacle, with
the varied colors of its black, brown,
red and yellow rocks. The wooden hut
erected on point of land by Nor
denskjOld in 1872 was found in very
Untidy condition. Besides white whales,
many fishermen angle for sharks, in
waters free from ice, for the sake of
the liver, which is very oily. From
two hundred to three hundred fish pay
for the trip. Great boldness is dis
played in hunting seals and bears,
which are often followed far into the
ice. The Hvidfsken continued her
hunting till the end of August, when
the ice had already become dangerous.
A bar of ice separated the ship from
the open sea, and only the resolution
of the captain, who ran and dragged
his ship with great trouble through the
blocks of ice, prevented it from being
obliged to winter there with insufficient
rovisiOns.-L0ndon Telegraph.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
COMMERCIAL UNION,
Efforts in Canada to Effect ReciprOci
With the United States.

Efforts in Canada to Effect Reciprocity
With the United States.
MONTREAL, Aug. 26.-Never in the pro
vince has a more Intelligent and apprecia-
tive audience assembled than the one which
yesterday heard at Shefford the first guns
fired for commercial union. Stirring ad-
dresses were delivered by Messrs. Clayes,
member of Parliament for Missisquoi;
Fisher, member of Parliament for Bronze;
Auget, ex-member Of Parliament for Shelf
ford, and E. johnson and H. NJ. Rider Mr.
Fontaine, Of St Hyacinth, made an address
in French, advising his cOuntrymen to give
their support to the movement, which, he
believed, would be for their good in every
way. Long and frequent applause inter
rupted all the speakers, and left no doubt
in the minds of unbiased spectators that
the movement is popular one
The meeting was brought to a close
with cheers for the Queen and the Presi-
dent. A letter was read from Erastus
Wiman, in which he deplOred his inability
to attend the meeting, owing to numerous
engagements, but assuring the assembly of
his entire sympathy with the cause, and
expressing the wish that he might here
after meet with the farmers and citizens tC
consider the great question Of commercial
union, which had as yet had no proper dis
cussion IN the province of Quebec. Yester-
days meeting VIII be followed by Others
the first of which Will be held at Waterloo,
Sheford County, on September next. Mr..
Wlman and other prominent supporters Of
the cause are expected to be present at thj~
meeting.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
JOYS OF COUNTRY LIFE.
MIR. and Mrs. BOwser's Visit to a Genuine
Rural Summer Resort.

Mr.. and Mrs. BOwser's Visit to a Genuine
Rural Summer Resort.
Il think we had better 90 away for
couple of weeks, " observed Mr.. Bowser
a few evenings since as we sat on the
steps.
"But why? Our house is nice and
cool, and we don't seem to feel the need
of a change"
"Oh, we don't, eh? That shows all
you know about it! If you had half an
eye you could see that babyis suffering
for a change. You are looking like
saf'ron-bag around your mouth, and /
am just dragged out myself. We shall
90 to the country"
"But our rooms are 50 cool, and we
can buy whatever we want to eat
"Cool rooms! You wait until YOU
strike a country bedroom and you will
call this house II sweat-bOx! AS for
living-yum! yum! Think Of cream,
fresh eggs, yellow butter, fresh berries,
old-fashioned biscuit, delicious coffee,
night breezes, new-mown hay, ripe
cherries, ct al.r'
l supposed we should have a week at
least in which to get ready, but Mr.
Bowser only gave me a day and a half,
and he even begrudged half day of
that. He telegraphed to the landlord
of a country hotel on the banks of
small lake, and the most ! could do
was to tumble about a bushel of things
into a trunk and tie on my bonnet. We
got out there by train. That is, we
got within six miles of the place. Mr.
Bowser had been in such hurry that
he didn' ascertain particulars. IL was
only after he had bargaincd with a
teamster to take us to the lake for
three dollars that he found that the lake
was not on the railroad. He looked a
little gloomy over it for a spell, but
finally showed me his nine-dollar fish
ing outfit, and after awhile forgot any
unpleasantness in viewing the country.
We saw a farmer cutting wheat.
We saw three crows.
We rode over three miles of causeway
and three of dust.
We saw as many as five barns.
We met q barefooted boy.
We saw dead horse.
If we met or saw any thing else
can't remember what it was Mr..
Bowser drew in deep draughts Of what
he called the elixir Of life, and quoted
poetry about the plow-boy and the low
ing kline, but | guess he was glad when
the ride ended. The sun had burned
the back of his neck as red as fire, he
was all dust and dirt, and the cause
ways had tired him out. We found the
hotel very picturesque affair. 1t was
half log and half frame. / can't say
whether it was Queen Anne or Tom
Collins style, but it was probably one
Or the other. The landlord had given
US a room in the log part. He knew
that we sighed for the picturesque, and
he was willing we should have it. II
was room as much as eight feet long
and FIVE feet wide. There were red
peppers and may weed and seed corn
and onions hanging TO the rafters, and
the great cracks in the floor were partly
hidden by rag carpet. There was
cracked looking-glass Of the NOah's
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
a FEMALE RINALDO.
A Band of Russian Highway Robbers Cor
manded by IA Bold Woman.

Band of Russian Highway Robbers Com.
manded by Bold Woman.
A band Of highway robbers was the
other day brought before the High
Court of Poltava, at the head Of which
stood noble lady of the name Of Rus
tanovitch The band was exception
ally well organized, and it appears to
have been extremely difficult to obtain
" membership, every intending mem
Der having TO undergo a severe exam
ination by the lady chief, who npp0r-
toned his work to each. Mime. Rus
tanOvitch was in the widest sense Of
the word the head Of the people, who
blindIy obeyed all her orders. She dis
tributcd the work" had her agents
who sold the results Of the work -
and divided the spoil equally between
them, keeping, however, the lions
share for herself The headquarters Of
the band we're on the banks Of the
Dnieper, in the Department Of Poltava,
and the police had for some years tried
unsuccessfully TO capture the bandits,
the efforts of the most skillful detect
ives being frustrated by the splendid
organization. The final capture was
due 10 the treachery Of member. All
the members, as we'll as the daring lady
chief, presented bold front TO the au-
thorities and were all of them coz
demned TO terms of imprisonment
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
GROWING CORK-oAKs.

A California Industry Which VIII Soon
Prove to BE RemuneratIve.
The growth of cOrk-Oak in California
is not a matter of experiment; it's sue
cess was demonstrated long ago. The
distribution of cork acOrns by the Pat
ent Office about twenty-five years ago
may not have accomplished much in
other parts of the country, but it gave
US a start, and there are now trees
yielding cork and bearing acOrns at
number Of different places in the State.
There are trees growing on Mr.. Rich
ardson' place at San Gabriel. There
were samples of cork and acorns shown
at the Sacramento Citrus Fair by II. A.
Messenger, of Calaveras County. There
are trees of similar age in Sonoma,
Santa Barbara and Tulare, and perhaps
other counties. The State University
is growing seedlings from California
cork acorns, and will be likely to have
the trees for distribution next year.
There is no doubt about the adaptation
of the tree to the State as the widely
separated places named above all fur
nish proper conditions for its growth.
1t is of course a crop of which one has
to wait some time to gather, and there
fore needs patience in the planter
All the cOrk-wood of commerce
comes from the Spanish Peninsula,
where the trees abound, not only in
cultivated forests, but also grow wild
on the mountains. The tree is like
an American oak, with leaves
similar to the oak, and acorns. 1t
takes ten years for the bark to become
a proper thickness to be manufactured
into bottle-stOppers, life-preserVers and
seine-cOrks. When stripped from the
tree it is to be boiled for two hours,
cured in the sun for week and pressed
into fiat pieces for baling and shipping
The denuded trunk, like hen robbed
of her eggs, does not sulk and quit the
business, but throws out a fresh cover
ing for fresh spoliation. One tree
has been known to yield half a ton of
cork-wood. One pound of cork can
be manufactured into 144 champagne
corks. The baied cork bark is sold to
cork manufacturing centers. The
most extensive mandatory in Ameri-
ca is at Pittsburgh. Besides the ordi-
nary demands for cork bark, a good
supply Of the buoyant material, after
being burned to make it still lighter
than the original bark, is shipped to
Canada and New England, where it is
made into scine-corks. The average
annual importation Of cork-wood into
this country. entirely at the port Of
New York, is 10000 bales a year. A
bale weighs $50 pounds and is worth
on this side of the water $50, making
total value of the importation of 81
100000. It comes in duty free.-Pa-
cifc RitrnL Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
MISCELLANEOUS:


THE Aurora, the largest wooden vessel
on the great chain of lakes, was launched
at Cleveland, o., on the Odd. Her beam is
Al 2-3 feet; length $40 feet, and depth 26
ID feet. She is equipped with a 2,0O0-
horsepower, double cylinder engine and
steam wheel weighing four tons. She was
built for the ore trade and is owned at
Cleveland.
A FATAL epidemic is reported prevalent
in Mcdowell County, W. Va.
THE missing boat of the lost steamer
City of Montreal has been picked up, and
the thirteen occupants were landed all
right.
UNDER the law the time allowed for the
redemption Of trade-dollars will expire on
the Sd Of next month. The amount re-
deemed up to the 23d was a little over s.,
400, 900. The number of these dollars esti-
mated to he held in this country by the Di-
rector OF the Mint in his report to Congress
was S7,O36,O0O, and the slight excess in re-
demption is accounted for by importa-
tion from China and Japan.
THE Secretary of the Treasury opened
proposals on the oath for the sale Of four
and a half per cent. bonds to the Govern
ment amounting to S7,14S,000.
IT is emphatically denied that the Presi-
dent has offered reward for triplets at
New York rural fair.
capitalists headed by one of the Wander
bilts, is said to be negotiating with the
Russian Government, with the object of
securing control of the gold mines of the
Ural mountains.
ADYICEs from India state that Ayoub
Khan, with his principal followers, has es-
capped and is hurrying toward Herat with
all possible speed. The Afghan officials
are endeavoring to overtake and capt
ure him, but with small chance of sue
cess.
News OF the serious and perhaps fatal
illness Of the .Ameer Of Afghanistan has
aroused Russian and English cupidity
once more in connection with that coun-
try.
REPORTS from sixty Manitoba points
concerning harvest, now nearly finished,
are highly satisfactory. The wheat yield
will be from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre, with other cereals in proportion.
The amount of wheat for export viii ex-
ceed 100000 bushels.
on the night of the oath the largest
comet that has appeared in many years
was reported as visible from Indianapolis
in the northern sky. The outline was
somewhat dim, but was perfectly plain to
the naked eye. 1t was first noticed about
ten O'Clock.
ON the 25th a stay of proceedings was
granted in Jake Sharpe's case.
The quarrymen employed at the lime
stone quaTries along the river east of
Youngstown, o., to the number of over
1900, struck on the oath for an increase of
two cents per ton and semi-monthIy pay
ment of wages. Those remaining at work
threa tened to join the strikers unless the
demands made were conceded.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has resumed the sale of one thousand
mill nf v-ba T.
State Commerce act went into force. The
rate is twenty dollars, the same prevailing
before the suspension.
REPORTS of starvation and cannibalism
come from remote regions Of British Amer
lea,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02

WICHITA, Kan, Aug 26.-At the time Of
the closing Of the West End drug store,
about s., 600 worth Of liquors were conis-
Gated by the county. Yesterday O'ConnoT
and Jones, OF the Internal Revenue Depart
ment, made an examination of the liquors
in the barrels and found that the con-
tents IN no way corresponded with
the proofs made by the officers upon the
barrels. In one barrel Of whisky was
found, az the examiner expressed IL,
enough Of arsenic to poison the town. a
keg of gin they said had been made IN the
city and had not passed through the hands
OF the revenue officers at all The proper
steps will be Immediately taken for the
conviction Of the parties guilty.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
The THINGS WE LOVE.

Out of our lives they go,
The sweet, sweet things we love;
We try to hold them, though,
The sweet, sweet things we love.
Out of our lives they go,
Leaving darkness and pain, E
Out of our lives they 60
We cry and hold in vain.
Out of our lives, o Godl
Thou knoWest what it meansl
More than the soft green sod,
1t may be, intervenes.
into our lives, again,
Will come the things we love,
Though naught doth whisper when,
These dear, sweet things we love.
Again into our lives,
Shining with holier light,
When Gods own time arrives,
They'll come more fair and bright,
Shining with holier light,
Touched by the hand divine,
No more to leave our sight,
Your dearly loved, aud mine.
" z. Observer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
New York Prohlbttfontsts.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, Aug. 27.-The Pro.
hibition State convention assembled yester-
day morning at nine o'clock, when Rev.
Mrs. Mary 7. Lathrop, Of Michigan, made
a long speech, and was followed by Mrs.
Carrie 7. Hoffman, Of Missouri. About two
thousand delegates were in attendance. OF
these 134 were formerly Democrats and the
rest formerly Republicans. a platform
was adopted declaring against license and
in favor Of womau's suffrage. It holds that
both the Republican and Democratic par
ties are controlled by the ''rum power, -
and cites the Vedder and Ives bills as proof
of the assertion